Sentences with phrase «gamesmanship as»

With lifelong terms for the justices, the Supreme Court is rightly designed by our founders to not be as easily affected by political gamesmanship as Congress or the Executive Branch tend to be, however, as we saw with its handling of Citizens United, this current court with its 5 - 4 conservative majority is not afraid to take radical action.

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It's hard not to view such a statement as a bit of gamesmanship — a polite dig at an upstart.

The deal could still fail, mostly as a result of gamesmanship between Chinese and American politicians, but today's share prices offer a significant discount even if that happens and NXP must carry on as a separate business.

Even assuming that Chelsea's three strikers are out of action though, it does not mean that the Gunners will have an easy task on Sunday as it will make Mourinho even more negative than usual and that means a massive blue bus and plenty of gamesmanship is heading to north London.

This is actually a precursor of the Guts bungee - basketball thing, but it works a whole lot better than Rocketball and, as in the above clip, sometimes a Gladiator will haul off and pop a dude in the mush because of gamesmanship.

This is now likely to be just another little bit of gamesmanship on Wenger's part (as we ALL know for a fact that Coquelin would not be playing against Spurs in the Capitol One Cup even if he was fully fit).

Everyone of their players is drilled to the nth degree as when to foul, what types of fouls in what areas of the pitch, taking gamesmanship to the very brink of what is acceptable.

What started as a bit of gamesmanship at TPC Sawgrass two weeks ago now has sponsors distancing themselves from the Spaniard.

But as I was reading about that in The Mirror today I spotted what looks like a slip of the tongue from their mouthy manager and I could not help thinking that he has inadvertently admitted to the cheating (or gamesmanship) that Arsenal fans have long suspected.

It was a bit of gamesmanship that proved that Helen played as well as a man.

LUIS, MU √ ëOZ MARIN Governor of Puerto Rico As I understand the word, gamesmanship is the art of upsetting your opponent psychologically, destroying his game and winning your wager.

Both officials were egged on to dismiss Mills by the home support, tired of what they viewed as gamesmanship by Forest's players.

It's a disgrace and Cuomo's wrong, there will be a lot of mud sticking to him as a result of this political gamesmanship he's engineering, but still attempting to avoid taking unwanted credit for in the State Senate.

«In an era of partisan gridlock and political gamesmanship plaguing Congress, Rep. Grimm stands out among the rest as someone who has worked across party lines to get things done, and his conscientious voting record demonstrates this much - needed pragmatism.»

As it turns out, my candidate was a master of political gamesmanship.

In answering that question Tribble provides us with a provocative and disturbing glimpse into the gamesmanship of getting orphan drug status; using Medicare as a cash cow to the tune of $ 11 million - a-year; that cozy relationship between Pharma and patient advocacy groups mentioned above; and how a pill goes from $ 80 to $ 550 and can cost a patient $ 180,000 annually.

The clipped dialogue, the scientific detecting, the camera tricks, the computer gamesmanship, the back - and - forth progression of the stories — the bricks that really matter in the construction of a TV show — are all quite the same [as CSI].

The gamesmanship between Marius and Luka's people isn't as bouncy as what we got last time, even if a lot of the individual cons are a pleasure to watch unfold.

Yet Desplechin's wildly discursive style calls so much attention to itself that even his heroes are overwhelmed by the aesthetic gamesmanship, left to flounder as the director skips from Leda And The Swan to breakdancing to a Hong Kong - style action sequence at a convenience store.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

The gamesmanship between director and audience is meant to mimic the cat - and - mouse machinations between former MI6 agent Ray Koval (Owen) and ex-CIA operative Claire Stenwick (Roberts) as well as the corporate honchos they work for.

As written by Matt Charman and Joel & Ethan Coen, Bridge of Spies is an intellectual exercise in political gamesmanship that is constantly being messed with by real people.

Director John Curran also struggles to contain the film's tone as it veers from re-creation of a tragedy to political gamesmanship; there are laughs to be had in watching a team of people try to create a sympathetic version of Ted Kennedy, but with the memory of Mara's Mary Jo Kopechne so vivid, does he really deserve it?

As if pulling a been - there - Dunkirk - that, he now shifts to the tense strategy sessions, bunker hand - wringing and political gamesmanship that fed into England's finest hour.

Whether writing as Jayne Anne Krentz in contemporary suspense or under her pseudonym Amanda Quick in historic Regency settings, this best - selling author is the unsurpassed master of male - female gamesmanship.

Urban excitement brought out gamesmanship and free play even in so reserved and calculated a visionary as Piet Mondrian.

His gamesmanship, as when upstairs he piles up busts of Tom Cruise, appears glib at best.

To that end, as a starting point, I draw inspiration from mid-century California hard - edge painters like John McLaughlin and Frederick Hammersley, both masters of formal gamesmanship and elegant compositional balancing acts.

It could just as well call itself «Maurizio Cattelan Is Alive,» since he is, but it makes a good case that Cattelan's gamesmanship would look more serious and meaningful without him.

It's a defense of business as usual, political gamesmanship and the plot of my novel.

The sole reason I am still targetting you though is not for the reasons «mike» put in his sadly departed comment, but because by putting on multiple personas such as Stirling English you are unhelpful to my cause (of finding out what sceptics really think) because in the back of my mind I will always be wondering whether (to use a bit of «mike» - style psychological gamesmanship) you really are just a bored and perhaps lonely man, or whether there is more to your method.

«If parties wish to engage in tactical gamesmanship, they should go out, hire an arbitrator and then «pay as you play» until their wallets are drained.

But, parties can not use the basically free public service offered by this court as a playing field for tactical gamesmanship,» he added.

Still, be prepared for a custody evaluation to view the RO as «child custody gamesmanship» — especially if you're a father who has taken out a restraining order against the mother for her poor behavior during these proceedings.